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Iomega recently released a new NAS device that is a pleasure to use -- if you can get past a few caveats.

Hewlett-Packard's new StorageWorks X1000 Series Network Storage Systems addresses storage needs for SMBs and enterprises.

Data Deposit Box offers an easy and inexpensive way to back up and share files.

Mobility in computing brings with it risks that multiply by the day. As corporate data continues to expand—regardless of the state of the economy—the risk of data being lost by a mobile workforce continues to hang like a dark cloud over businesses large and small.

The Test Center looks at a NAS device that combines user-friendly management and advanced features.

Compliancy and legal e-discovery requirements can make e-mail retention a headache for VARs and administrators. Tangent has a solution to address the issues.

The Test Center looks at Maxtor's Central Axis network storage server and finds an easy to set up and fast drive just right for media streaming and backups. It can fit a novice home user as well as a savvy IT admin group.

The Test Center looks at an appliance from PivotStor that claims to filter out spam and malware before archiving mail.

The Test Center examines an alternative to the emerging, OEM-produced Solid State Drives (SSDs).

D-Link's new storage product shows promise in a growing market.

WD delivers RAID to the desktop with the latest entry in its My Book lineup. The Test Center examines the product to see how it performs.

Here's a frustration for VARs and IT administrators: customers who insist on using e-mail boxes for simple storage. Unfortunately, it's become commonplace in the enterprise.

HP has brought a new SAN solution to market, targeting the midmarket as competition heats up from rivals like Dell and EMC. The Test Center takes a look to see how HP's solution holds up.

Microsoft bills its SkyDrive online storage service as a way for co-workers to share files. The Test Center takes a look to see if that's really a good idea.

HP is placing new emphasis on storage in 2008, and it has offered a refresh to its All-in-One storage family with the new AiO 400r and AiO 400t.

CA is launching a major upgrade to its ARCserve Backup product for storage management, as it works to leverage virtualization and ROI focus in the market.

A lot of VMware implementations end up with I/O bottlenecks, overcommitments, and mismatches between resource pools. While domain-specific monitoring tools provide some insight into resources, cross-domain traffic that spans multiple virtualized tiers is completely undetectable.

Sepaton's S2100 DS2 Series 500 makes the switchover from tape backup to disk-based backup easy because the change occurs entirely on the back-end. As far as the backup software is concerned, it's still tape.

In the storage world, it's all starting to come together.

Quantum combines the advantages of hard disk drives and tape into its GoVault backup solution.

Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks All-in-One Storage Systems, earmarked for SMBs and branch offices, make it easy for solution providers to get into disk-based network storage without having much storage expertise.

As far as PowerFile is concerned, tape just doesn't cut it for archiving files. The vendor's Active Archive Appliance (A3) instead uses DVDs for data storage, providing a long-term, more readily accessible file archive.

Iomega's new generation Of 70-Gbyte REV drives enable users to back up an entire system on a single disk -- in no time.

An emerging technology called holographic storage is expected to soon make its way into everyday life. Designed for long-term data archiving and regulatory compliance, the first generation of cartridges will hold 300 Gbytes of data.

The TrekStor USB-Stick CS-D USB thumb drive offers up to 8 Gbytes of storage for about $180, which translates into less than $23 per Gbyte.

Store-It: When portable hard drives get personal.

Quantum is addressing the backup needs of SMBs with its new GoVault removable drive storage solution.

Iomega's REV Loader 280 ensures that small businesses don't have to settle for backup hardware that lacks performance.

Buffalo has upped the ante in the network attached storage game with the TeraStation Pro.

Gateway's E-6500D looks like an old-school desktop computer yet includes state-of-the-art components, offers top-notch performance and is compatible with most modern applications and peripherals.

CRN Test Center engineers agree the Contactual OnDemand Contact Center will, in fact, reduce the costs and eliminate the risks companies face when deploying customer service automation solutions.

Ideal for SMB use, Exabyte's new VXA-172 Packet Drive will give customers the greatest ROI on their hardware investmentand solution providers will still profit by performing upgrades down the road.

UCN has recently created a set of pre-integrated contact center applications to fit the specialized needs of call centers.

With just 4U of rack space and a new chassis design, Nexsan Technologies' SATABeast storage array allows customers to save on energy consumption.

Idealstor’s FrankeNAS uses hard disks both in a RAID array and in a removable disk array, which does away with the need for tape.

Unless you live under a log, any reseller or solution provider in the storage and backup business should be familiar with, or at least have heard of, EMC’s Retrospect backup and recovery software. The software is designed for SMB use and distributed enterprises. While these environments might not be as complex as enterprise settings, data protection is every bit as important. But because these environments likely don’t have extensive internal IT staffs, and thus aren’t equipped to run complex backup and recovery applications, EMC Retrospect is designed to make managing backups as simple and as automated as possible.

So that small businesses can take advantage of storage offerings with a relatively low price-to-capacity ratio, Infrant Technologies aims to turn the storage market around with its new axiom, “big is small,” and its new ReadyNAS NV NAS box.

CRN Test Center engineers put to the test two new and improved storage appliances.

Spectra Logic’s Spectra T50 Tape Library, which is easy to use, manage and maintain, makes backing up critical data as easy as possible.

New modules of the AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite R4.0 extends management capabilities to all NetApp storage solutions.

CRT displays didn’t lend themselves well to all-in-one system designs, but flat-panel displays are perfect for them.

With its 10-terabyte native capacity, Sony’s new CSM-20 SAIT-1 Mini Library is an ideal solution for the SMB sector.

LiveVault InSync is an outsourcing service that completely removes tape from the data protection equation and deploys the newest disk-to-disk technologies to ensure a successful backup and fast restore.

Solution providers waste time when cobbling together a storage solution using various bits of hardware and software from multiple vendors. A much faster way to solve storage problems is to go with a turnkey solution. With the recent proliferation of NAS and storage appliances based on Microsoft's Windows Storage Server 2003, resellers can simply shop for the exact solution they need.

No matter the size of a business' data flow, business-critical information needs to be backed up and protected at all costs. Synology offers the DS-101 DiskStation, a barebones file server system that caters to the SMB market, for less than $250.

Optical storage solutions are quickly outpacing the growth of other removable storage technologies such as floppy disks and removable hard-drive technologies.

GSA-5160D External 16x Super Multi optical burner drive

Exabyte's Magnum 1x7 Tape Autoloader is ideal for IT managers who require robust features usually only found in higher-end products.

Exabyte's Magnum 1x7 Tape Autoloader is a 2U, rack-mountable automated tape backup solution. The LTO-2 device is ideal for IT managers who require robust features usually found only in higher-end products.

Quantum DLT VS160, a tabletop, half-high form-factor tape drive that plugs the gap between entry-level tape drives and enterprise-level storage solutions.

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